I think the problem is that the idea of man actually leaving the earth and setting foot on another heavenly body, goes against their religious belief systems, and changes their world.

I’m looking at you fundies.

The fact of the matter is the various missions to the moon left behind many items that are visible from earth (by telescope). And faking the moon landing would require more people “in” on it than faking 9/11. And the more people involved in anything secret, the more likely it is to get out. I mean someone would be apt to get drunk some time and talk too much. Especially if they visit this site.

My favorite argument against the moon landings being a hoax is that most (basically, all) of the Apollo equipment was built by contractors who were handed specs and a budget.

The contractors can’t possibly all be in on the conspiracy, that would be way too many people to be feasible.

Therefore, they must have made the parts to the specs. And either the specs weren’t good and therefore the Apollo rockets would have have worked, or the specs were good, and the rockets would have worked (mostly, cf Apollo 13).

If the specs were good, there would be no reason to fake the moon landings since the rockets would have worked and they’d already spent all the money to make them.

If the specs were bad, someone would have noticed, since the contractors were all engineering firms (obviously) and someone along the way would have no doubt realized that the parts they were building could never have worked in the way necessary.

Dur guys you all just sheeple, how can you accept the lies that your goverment feeds you. I wasn’t alive when the moon landings happened, therefore, the moon landings didin’t happen.

How could something happen while im not alive? I mean I am the center of my universe, just like the bible tells me, and I have Jesus in my heart, and he whispers to me all night long about all the lies you people are feeding the masses.

Now…really. Our good old fundie friends aren’t the only ones who go around blabbing about how fake the moon landing was. Actually, our fundie friends wouldn’t have to make up such a big conspiracy theory about it. And they could still just say: You’ve been to the moon and for that you all will burn in hell. Like they do with homosexuality or divorce. Fundies are low-maintenance.

No, this theory comes from the most annoying scum that was ever let loose on this planet: Conspiracy theorists. Who say that everything is faked. The moon landing, the Bible, 9/11, the American Government, Microsoft etc.
And for that, the make up huge conspiracies that are too big to stay secret and everything is a proof for those conspiracies and every proof against those conspiracies is just a proof for how good those conspiracies conceal themselves.

No, the Bible wasn’t faked. It WAS actually written by ancient nomadic barbarians. But a small fringe of crackpots believe it was written by a magic sky genie. They’d probably move on with their lives if only they could get some decent sex.

I wonder who’s going to be the first to do the nasty in space, if it’s not already happened. I did read that they’re serious about studying sex in space, because if we need to leave earth, we need to perpetuate the human race (and bring the important animals like cows, chickens, pigs, fish, dogs, cats, and anacondas).

I love these pictures; here they show two folks training so they could familiarize themselves with how the tools and suits interact with dust and rocks so that their training in the tank of water to simulate low gravity can be applied to this and the folks will not get there and have to call NASA saying “hey, um, Huston, so how do we make these things work?” Exact same principle as fire training aboard a ship. You train for emergencies without the fire with simulated smoke on the ship and then on land you actually learn how to fight fires. It is one thing to fill a building with hay and set it on fire and let the trainees put it out on land but having a fire at sea where if things get out of hand those invovled really can’t just walk away from the danger.

I know we went to the moon. I know we landed there first on July 11, 1969. This is fact. What I don’t understand, however, is how we can have satellites in earth orbit that can see things on earth that are .15 meters across (the KH-12 class of reconnaissance satellite), but we can’t see the fucking lunar landers?

@wookie_x
Recon satellites usually orbit a few hundred miles above Earth (actual orbits are, of course, classified).
Geosynchronous orbit is about 20,000 miles from Earth.
The moon is about 240,000 miles away.

I think the reason so many people believe the moon landing to be a hoax is that we haven’t gone back or done anything to top that since. And that goes contrary to our typical expectation of progress. Its as if Columbus discovered America and everyone collectively said ‘so what?’.

off topic, but I lol everytime i think about how we can spend…billions to go to the moon, ya know, just cause we felt like it. while there is people fucking aids monkeys and are starving, in other countries.

Not saying we should help these countries instead of exploring though.

Remember this comment about moon landing non-believers, one world panic assholes, jet contrails being some clandistine government plot, black helicopters spying on us, etc.
To an intelligent, educated person there is nothing on earth more frightening than ignorance organized and in action.

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